German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to do more to ease tensions in Ukraine.<br /><br />Merkel met with French President, Francois Hollande, in her constituency in Germany on Saturday.<br /><br />Both leaders said Sunday's planned referendum in Ukraine's eastern region is illegal and will carry no weight.<br /><br />But the chairman of the election commission of the self-declared Donetsk Peoples Republic said more than 1,500 polling stations are being set up and added that a "yes" vote would give the region the right to change things.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Paul Brennan reports from Donetsk.
